Garlic moss, also known as garlic powder, is a flower stem extracted from bolting garlic, including flower stem (stem) and involucre (bud). A vegetable that people like to eat is often mistakenly written as "garlic moss". Garlic was introduced into China for nearly 2000 years. Garlic planted in ancient times was originally called egg garlic. In 1 19 BC, Zhang Qian of the Western Han Dynasty made a second mission to the Western Regions and introduced a kind of "Hu garlic" from the Western Regions. Its shape is larger than that of egg garlic originally cultivated in China, so it is called garlic, and egg garlic is relatively called small garlic. Garlic bolts are widely distributed in China, and are planted in both north and south. It is one of the vegetable varieties with the largest storage capacity and the longest shelf life in the vegetable refrigeration industry in China. Garlic moss is a kind of functional healthy vegetable with various nutritional effects.
Efficacy and function of garlic bolt: garlic bolt is warm, has the functions of warming the middle warmer, reducing qi, tonifying deficiency and viscera, promoting blood circulation, preventing cancer and sterilizing, and has certain curative effect on abdominal pain and diarrhea.
1. disinfection
Garlic moss contains capsaicin, its bactericidal ability can reach one tenth of penicillin, and it has a good killing effect on pathogenic bacteria and parasites, and can prevent influenza, wound infection and insect repellent. Allicin and allicin contained in garlic shoots can inhibit the growth and reproduction of Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus, Shigella dysenteriae, Escherichia coli, Vibrio cholerae and other bacteria.
2. Relax and prevent hemorrhoids.
Garlic moss skin is rich in cellulose, which can stimulate defecation in large intestine and regulate constipation. Eating more garlic bolts can prevent the occurrence of hemorrhoids, reduce the recurrence times of hemorrhoids, and have a certain therapeutic effect on mild and moderate hemorrhoids.
3. Prevention and treatment of coronary heart disease, arteriosclerosis and lipid lowering.
Garlic bolt is rich in vitamin C, which has obvious effects of reducing blood lipid, preventing coronary heart disease and arteriosclerosis, and preventing thrombosis. It can protect the liver, induce the activity of liver cell detoxification enzymes, and block the synthesis of nitrosamine carcinogens, thus preventing the occurrence of cancer.